All this is not 2 years - or 30 - years old. It is millennia old - it is ensconced in the profit method and system. It is built into the hugely rich church and governments - dictators or 'democracies' - not to dismiss democracies' better form.
Not admitting this well known analysis just accepts the brutality of the past.
We're told the years from inception of the U.S. to about 30 years ago were kinder, more democratic. But they weren't. Profit has always used with an iron fist - wedged slightly in the face of communist advance in the early to mid- 20th century.
Massive wealth accumulation's been going on since forever, just not as announced.
Our revolutionary efforts are thousands of years old.
There are still difficulties in Germany, Sweden, - et al . The separation by our Owners of 'the' political social economic elements from each other is again, the analysis that allows the disinformation by go-alongs - like Sachs and others.
They are a unity - a wholey trinity. The pleasant social system we seek does not exist yet. The disinformation presently propounded although it's limited, fits the urgings defined by the establishment.
Try studying socialism. Yesterday's attempt to look at anarchism on the noon hour show effectively examined socialism, leaving out structures and process to get to that goal, pleasant living FOR ALL.

Marx was a scientific analyst of capitalism, showing this IS the path capitalism takes; there's no avoiding it. Saying capitalism could be made to work is ahistorical as well as wishful thinking ignoring the facts.

Great show, as usual. Somehow even though a lot of other shows come close to this level of discourse, L&P still stands heads and shoulders above the crowd IMHO. While what Mr. Sachs had some reasonable points about capital with restraints, it would have been soooo juicy to have Naomi Klein on to maybe debate, or clear up some points that Mr. Sachs said he was misunderstood about.